Reborn as a concubine's daughter and entering a noble family: Xie Lang, don't be too seduc

I don't know how much time passed before I heard the faint snoring beside me gradually subside.

Xie Lin breathed a sigh of relief, tucked the blanket around her, and then lay back down on his own...

He was already exhausted! After all, he was still sick.

A chill, a sudden cold, and a nightmare had caused Hawthorne to start talking nonsense. She had a high fever, was nearly dying, and was crying incessantly, desperately pleading for help. It's easy to guess what she had been through...

She simply couldn't describe that face.

Perhaps it was because I was too scared to recall it too clearly.

Xie Lin had no other choice but to wait and see, hoping she might suddenly remember...

But actually, someone actually saw her?

According to her fragmented description, when the man raised his longsword, a beam of light shone on the blade, and through the reflection, Sang Hua saw his face. Then, blood splattered on his face...

Sang Hua was terrified when she got to this point. She started crying and her whole body was trembling.

Could it be...?

Did Sang Hua happen to witness that person committing the killing back then?

The killer... was one of her closest relatives; the splattered blood belonged to Sang Hua's family.

So she was afraid.

Xie Lin thought for a moment. A few days ago, they had returned from the palace only to be met with an assassination attempt outside the side gate of the Marquis's residence. Afterwards, Sang Hua fell ill and never recovered, becoming delirious with fever. At the time, he simply assumed that Sang Hua, having grown up in the palace, had never witnessed such bloodshed and carnage, and was therefore terrified...

Think about it now.

Perhaps it was because she had experienced it, and had witnessed her loved ones being killed, that she suffered such a great blow and forgot everything.

But when she experienced that kind of killing again and heard the voices she had heard before, it stirred up her old wounds, which is why she suddenly fell ill.

Why is Sang Hua alright?

What exactly was the rebellion she witnessed?

If she saw it, why didn't that person kill her? Instead, they let her live.

This is just too strange!

Could it be that during the time when the Huo family suffered a calamity, the entire Huo family was massacred, and Sang Hua was the only survivor?

She was probably hidden away when the incident occurred.

Hiding in the shadows, he happened to witness the murder of his loved ones!

Thinking of this, Xie Lin clenched his fists tightly, his heart aching so much that the nerves on his face were taut, and he almost bit his teeth off...

That must have been an extremely fierce and brutal battle.

"I don't know what happened back then. I hope you remember, and I also hope you never have to remember..." Xie Lin raised his hand to stroke her tear-streaked face, his eyes filled with sorrow.

That is... ...

his... ...

He looked into Sang Hua's eyes, his expression filled with even more helplessness.

Only if Sang Hua remembers what that person looks like will he have a chance to find the killer who slaughtered the entire Huo family...

Only then can we follow the clues and find the culprit who wiped out the Huo family back then!

Seeing the terror on her face when she recalled it, I hoped she could bury it all deep in her heart forever and never think of it again.

It must have been very painful for her to go through all that.

She didn't know everything; all she knew was that her relatives had all died at the hands of bad people during the massacre!

“However…” He gently stroked her tear tracks, trying to wipe away her grief, “If that assassin is still alive, if he knows that you are still alive, regardless of whether you remember what he looked like back then, he will definitely… you are still in great danger.”

In the years before, Sang Hua had lived in the palace, living next to Consort Qi.

Perhaps that's actually the safest option!

But once she leaves the palace, the assassin who slaughtered the entire Huo family might target her.

All these years, the assassins from back then never had a chance to harm her, which means the palace is still a place they can't enter... ...The one who wiped out the entire Huo family might not have been someone arranged by people in the palace.

The Huo family...

The real culprit behind the massacre of the entire family may not be someone from the palace.

Sang Hua slept as quietly as a cat, curled up pitifully in a ball, as if the slightest noise would frighten her into raising her tail on alert.

When Xie Lin's fingers brushed across her cheek for the third time...

He realized that he had fallen for Sang Hua.

"Don't worry, I'll be by your side from now on. No matter what happens, I'll protect you. I'll never let you... lose your life."

However, she probably can't hear it anymore.

I was exhausted from crying so much, and with the medication and my illness, I'm sleeping incredibly soundly now.

Xie Lin covered himself with the blanket, turned to his side, gazed at the person beside him, and gradually fell asleep.

Day two.

The loud banging on the door startled the person sleeping in bed.

Xie Lin was incredibly annoyed. He opened his eyes, yawned, got up, and opened the door—

"Who!"

Qinghuai stood at the door, "Second... Second Young Master, the Old Madam has sent someone to invite the Second Madam."

"She's asleep." Xie Lin glanced at the bed and said irritably, "Go and tell the old lady that the second madam is still very ill and can't get out of bed."

As he spoke, he was about to close the door.

“But—” Qinghuai stopped the door from closing. “The old lady’s people came to say that a distinguished guest has arrived at the house and they insist that the second madam go to the front hall to sit down and have a chat.”

It's not as easy to talk to people over there as it is in the palace.

In the palace, Huo Sanghua was, after all, the adopted daughter of Consort Qi. Relying on Consort Qi's favor with the Emperor, everyone made things difficult for her, but no one dared to disrespect Consort Qi.

Now she is the daughter-in-law of the Xie family, married to a mere illegitimate son of the Xie family.

The old lady sent someone to call her. Since the Xie family had distinguished guests, how could she, as the newlywed bride of the Xie family, not even show her face?

Their voices woke Hawthorne, who had just fallen asleep. He sat up and asked, "...Who is it?"

Half an hour later...

After washing and dressing neatly, she hurriedly went to the front hall of Madam Xie's residence, accompanied by Qinghuai and Granny Guo, to meet the so-called distinguished guest.

Just as he reached the gate, Liao Bin suddenly rushed out and blocked his way.

Qinghuai was startled. "Who is it!"

"Second Madam, it's best not to go." Liao Bin had been waiting here to tell her this. "The people inside don't have good intentions. If you delay any longer, the eldest young master is on his way back. Once he arrives, it won't matter whether you go or not."

Judging from the looks of it, Xie Shu also knew who the distinguished guest inside was.

Is he not at home?

From what Liao Bin said, it seemed he knew who the person was, and what Madam Xie's purpose was in inviting Huo Sanghua. When he received the message, she was out handling matters and had Liao Bin rush back to stop her...

"What do you mean?" Hawthorne didn't quite understand.

Should we delay a little longer?

"Don't worry about it. Anyway... it wasn't your business to begin with. The old lady just wants to make things difficult for you, understand?" Liao Bin's tone was harsh. He still remembered last night when his young master had taken care of her for half the night, only for the second young master to take her away as soon as he returned. "Just make an excuse to delay, don't go over there yet. Wait until the eldest young master comes back and diverts the conversation, then it'll be none of your business!"

"But, isn't this inappropriate?" Hawthorne knew that the visitor had ill intentions.

Madam Xie's talk of "distinguished guests" might just mean that she invited them to cause trouble for her.

"Who cares if she's good or bad? I told you not to go, so just don't go... Why are you so disobedient?" Liao Bin complained.